Hollis Frampton Movies

  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    7.82000HD

    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1967
    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    Wavelength

    5.41967HD

    In a Lower Manhattan industrial loft, a camera very slowly zooms into a photograph on a wall while various people occasionally enter and exit.

    Wavelength
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    8.41986HD

    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1974
    Autumnal Equinox

    Autumnal Equinox

    Autumnal Equinox

    5.41974HD

    Filmed in a slaughterhouse in South St. Paul, MN… Frampton utilizes a shooting strategy that flattens and pictorializes a palpable space of...

    Autumnal Equinox
  • 1967
    States

    States

    States

    01967HD

    "No, not the United etc. but the conditions, forms in which things exist. Somewhat abstracted, a solid, a liquid and a gas: salt, milk and smoke:...

    States
  • 1972
    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    Apparatus Sum

    01972HD

    Frampton on Apparatus Sum: "A brief lyric film of death, which brings to equilibrium a single reactive image from a roomful of cadavers."

    Apparatus Sum
  • 1974
    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    Pan 1

    4.41974HD

    A pendulum swings by until it comes to a complete stop.

    Pan 1
  • 1970
    Zorns Lemma

    Zorns Lemma

    Zorns Lemma

    6.41970HD

    Zorns Lemma is a 1970 American structural film by Hollis Frampton. It is named after Zorn's lemma (also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma), a...

    Zorns Lemma
  • 1968
    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    Snowblind

    4.81968HD

    "Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of three historic montage styles, for three...

    Snowblind
  • 1979
    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance

    7.51979HD

    Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

    Grand Opera: An Historical Romance
  • 1967
    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    51967HD

    “Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...

    Heterodyne
  • 1973
    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”

    01973HD

    During the 1970s I shot, helped to make, or commissioned about ten document films, mainly about film-makers. This film is one of them. It was made...

    Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  • 1974
    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    Pan 3

    51974HD

    A journey through a field of corn.

    Pan 3
  • 1968
    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    5.51968HD

    A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

    Surface Tension
  • 1966
    Process Red

    Process Red

    Process Red

    4.91966HD

    An experimental short film by Hollis Frampton of contrasting colours.

    Process Red
  • 1966
    Information

    Information

    Information

    71966HD

    Frampton on Information: "Hypothetical 'first film' for a synthetic tradition constructed from scratch on reasonable principles, given: 1) camera; 2)...

    Information
  • 1973
    Less

    Less

    Less

    4.11973HD

    "Near the end of 1973, Frampton realized that he had not finished a single film over the course of a year. He promptly conceived and executed LESS, a...

    Less
  • 1974
    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    Noctiluca

    01974HD

    Otherwise known as Magellan's Toys #1. Hollis Frampton's "Noctiluca" was a film designed to be shown on the second day of the Magellan cycle, the...

    Noctiluca
  • 2026
    A Pentagram For the Narrative

    A Pentagram For the Narrative

    A Pentagram For the Narrative

    02026HD

    Adapting an unpublished screenplay by Hollis Frampton, Charli explores and challenges the perceptions of trans women at their most intensely...

    A Pentagram For the Narrative